Sounds like one of my dictations while I'm reading throught the 75 sheets of old records and notes: medications "none"... ah, ok, hmmmm, ah, Fukitol, Gorillacillin, two white pills, and one oval pink one.

I see this stuff all the time in our EMR. Someone has created templates with the most common stuff, I think, and no one READS that, just appends, so you get "well appearing cachectic chronically ill appearing male..." And for successive progress notes from the same provider group you get the ENTIRE FREAKING previous note with maybe 5 or 10 new words which you won't notice unless you read every.single.word!!! And they say the EMR is less error prone...

There is a high-quality oil filter that is marketed for cars, but used by lots of motorcyclists. Recently, the manufacturer put a statement on its web site saying that its mediocre-quality filter marketed for motorcycles was the only one that should be used for motorcycles, as the high-quality filter was designed for vehicles, not motorcycles.

At one time in my life, I worked in a medical office. I saw stuff like this ALL TIME in files. It was in Alabama, which could explain a lot.

Totally not on the subject, but working in that office is where I came across the surname Dick. I saw it, and I starting laughing. I couldn't stop. I was 21 at the time, and yet, I felt like I hadn't left grade school. Someone has a last name that is Dick. hehehehehe

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